LIVE COMIX READING NIGHT
Caesar Meadows, Will Frank, John Slade, Otto Splotch and more will present their works on Antenna’s big-screen at Comix Night. For more information contact antenna.nola@gmail.com.
Press Street is a New Orleans-based 501c3 literary and visual arts collective formed in 2005 to promote art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts education. Its projects include the gallery space Antenna, the annual 24 hour arts education extravaganza Draw-A-Thon, Room 220 - a blog dedicated to the literary life of New Orleans, and the publication of books which focus on the relationship between the visual and literary arts.
Live Comix Reading Night
8:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday, April 15, 2011
Location: Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
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The People Is Singular
Poems by Andy Young and Photographs by Salwa Rashad
The People Is Singular, by local poet Andy Young and Egyptian photographer Salwa Rashad, is a personal response to the Egyptian Revolution. Rashad’s vision includes everyday people—Muslims and Christians, young and old, the foregrounded and the peripheral. Her perspective is from inside the events as they unfolded. Andy Young, a New Orleans poet married to [...]
Curtain Optional
by Brad and Jim Richard
In both poetry and prose, Brad Richard explores the influence of his father’s work on his own, as well as the experience of growing up as the son of an artist while becoming an artist himself. Jim Richard is a professor of painting at the University of New Orleans and has exhibited at the Solomon [...]
How to Rebuild a City
Edited by Anne Gisleson & Tristan Thompson w/ design and artistic direction by Catherine Burke
Beautifully designed, sometimes fun, always informative, How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide from a work in Progress, is a reflection of the many ways that New Orleanians have realized our way towards recovery, actively and creatively engaging with our communities.
Bitter Ink
by Brian Zeigler & Raymond “Moose” Jackson
BBoth originally from Detroit, cousins Brian Zeigler and Raymond “Moose” Jackson began collaborating while Brian was harboring Moose in Vermont during Katrina evacuation. While their doodling proclivities may have made them rustbelt exiles from the rest of their autoworker family, together they produce seductive aphorisms of wit and weirdness that provoke, confound and celebrate a [...]
Green Zone New Orleans
by Mark Yakich
A nine-part poem meant to be performed aloud, GZNO approaches questions of disaster and its aftermath from tragicomic perspectives. The poem is accompanied by the poet’s surreal line drawings. Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in [...]
Revacuation
by Brad Benischek
A post-Katrina graphic novel of sorts by New Orleans artist Brad Benischek. Part fantasy, part social commentary, Revacuation is a visual response to the tragic and absurd events of year one as they unfolded. Benischek’s raw, immediate style, lush imagination and quirky humor make Revacuation a wholly original addition to the post-K cultural discourse. Beginning [...]